The toxicity comes from a perception (usually by people who would never in a million years vote Tory)
No, that is not quite right. The toxicity is seen by many who used to vote Conservative. Take Scotland: until the mid 1980s, there'd be 20 or more Conservative MPs; since 1997 there have been zero or one.
Blaming "welfare" or the public sector or the wrong sort of voters, as many Conservatives do is not just head-in-the-sand: it's salt in the wounds.
Theresa May was right. Conservatives are seen as the nasty party by many people who'd otherwise vote Tory. Hence David Cameron's detoxification strategy.
Some men's inability to grow a beard is a relatively unexplored area of male life. Aside from Njal in Njal's Saga, I can't think of a work of literature where the problem has been given an airing.
Another aspect of the Charities scam that annoyed me with "Save The Children" was their decision to spend some of the money in the UK.
Now I know I'm in a minority here, but I was happy to give money when I pictured starving African kids staring out at me through their gaunt eyes. Ribs you could play a tune on and a stomach distended by fluid and not fat. "Won't someone feed them?" would have been the strapline
But the STC Director decided we needed to spend some of that money on deprived kids in the UK (caused by the horrible austerity) as they were all in "poverty" (as defined).
I think even Roger would struggle to devise an effective advert featuring a gang of obese kids looking like they were auditioning for the "Roly-Polys". And with a strapline of ... "Won't someone stop them eating so much?"
Miss Plato, I think Superman's one of the most common passwords (in The Big Bang Theory Leonard uses Kal-El for everything).
I don't get why people go for weird names or give their kids a stupid spelling of a normal name (such as Ritchard).
I had a child in surgery the other day with the name Keiane. Apparently pronounced like Cian. I said that was an interesting spelling and the mother said "yeah we made it up 'cos we wanted more letters". I don't think people that stupid should be allowed to have children.
Another aspect of the Charities scam that annoyed me with "Save The Children" was their decision to spend some of the money in the UK.
Now I know I'm in a minority here, but I was happy to give money when I pictured starving African kids staring out at me through their gaunt eyes. Ribs you could play a tune on and a stomach distended by fluid and not fat. "Won't someone feed them?" would have been the strapline
But the STC Director decided we needed to spend some of that money on deprived kids in the UK (caused by the horrible austerity) as they were all in "poverty" (as defined).
I think even Roger would struggle to devise an effective advert featuring a gang of obese kids looking like they were auditioning for the "Roly-Polys". And with a strapline of ... "Won't someone stop them eating so much?"
"[ syll. bla-zej, bl-az-ej ] The baby boy name Blazej is pronounced as BL-Z †. Blazej is used chiefly in Czech and Polish. Its origin is Latin.
Blazej is a variant of the name Blaise (English and French) in the Czech and Polish languages.
Blazej is also a variant of the name Blaze (English and Latin) in the Polish language.
Blazej is not often used as a baby boy name. It is not listed within the top 1000. Among the family of boy names directly related to Blazej, Blaze was the most widely used in 2012.
Baby names that sound like Blazej include Blaze (English and Latin), Blake (English), Balesh (Indian), Bayles, Baylles, Beals (English), Blac, Black, Blacke, Blaek, Blaeke, Blaes, Blaese, Blaez, Blaeze, Blaik, Blaike, Blais, Blaise (English and French), and Blaiz.
† English pronunciation for Blazej: B as in "be (B.IY)" ; L as in "lay (L.EY)" ; Z as in "zoo (Z.UW)"
"[ syll. bla-zej, bl-az-ej ] The baby boy name Blazej is pronounced as BL-Z †. Blazej is used chiefly in Czech and Polish. Its origin is Latin.
Blazej is a variant of the name Blaise (English and French) in the Czech and Polish languages.
Blazej is also a variant of the name Blaze (English and Latin) in the Polish language.
Blazej is not often used as a baby boy name. It is not listed within the top 1000. Among the family of boy names directly related to Blazej, Blaze was the most widely used in 2012.
Baby names that sound like Blazej include Blaze (English and Latin), Blake (English), Balesh (Indian), Bayles, Baylles, Beals (English), Blac, Black, Blacke, Blaek, Blaeke, Blaes, Blaese, Blaez, Blaeze, Blaik, Blaike, Blais, Blaise (English and French), and Blaiz.
† English pronunciation for Blazej: B as in "be (B.IY)" ; L as in "lay (L.EY)" ; Z as in "zoo (Z.UW)"
16 boys registered without a name! How does that work then...?
Blinking heck, they haven't even spelt Anakin properly.
On the Star Wars front, I like the name Leia. I think it is pretty. I wouldn't have called my daughter that because she would've grown up answering Force-related questions, but it is a nice name.
My boy (Joshua) was in nursery last year and I'm sure you'll be reassured to know that his classmates all had fairly traditional names. He was in class with a Dylan, a Harry, two Olivers, three Caitlins, a Lewis, a Millie, a Bethany, a Lily, a Jack and a Finlay among others. Nothing too offensive and they all send eachother Christmas cards! Not that I (or he) gives a monkeys about their names anyway. I won't be preventing him from hanging out with the chavs; he'll probably be one himself
"The party funding figures are out for Quarter 2 of the year. The Tories are out front with £4,116,006 while Labour’s £3,136,447 is almost entirely from the unions. The LibDems have struggled to even raise a million with £801,448, while UKIP’s £160,289 was double what they raised in Q1.
The biggest donors were:
Unite the Union £772,195 to Labour Ms Joan L B Edwards £420,576 to Tories Ms Joan L B Edwards £99,423 to LibDems GMB £485,830 to Labour UNISON £458,080 to Labour Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers £411,147 to Labour Mr Michael S Farmer £280,770 to Tories Mr James R Lupton £263,600 To Tories National Conservative Draws Society £165,000 to Tories CWU £143,121 to Labour Offshore Group Newcastle Limited £117,300 to Tories
Clearly whoever Joan L B Edwards is, she really really likes the coalition. Labour got another £2,241,419 in short money, yet despite this have gone cap in hand to the bank again >>>
Robin Brant @robindbrant JCB research has given a total of £32,500 to four target constituencies, Wells, NE Derbyshire, Nuneaton (Con held) and Telford.
@Morris_Dancer Njal and his sons couldn't grow a proper beard. This was one of the things that his enemies used to taunt him with, calling him things like "little dungbeard" to call into question his masculinity. With Icelandic men then being hyper-conscious of their manliness, this led to feuds, culminating in the tragic denouement.
All this could have been averted if the disposable razor had been invented sooner.
16 boys registered without a name! How does that work then...?
Blinking heck, they haven't even spelt Anakin properly.
On the Star Wars front, I like the name Leia. I think it is pretty. I wouldn't have called my daughter that because she would've grown up answering Force-related questions, but it is a nice name.
My boy (Joshua) was in nursery last year and I'm sure you'll be reassured to know that his classmates all had fairly traditional names. He was in class with a Dylan, a Harry, two Olivers, three Caitlins, a Lewis, a Millie, a Bethany, a Lily, a Jack and a Finlay among others. Nothing too offensive and they all send eachother Christmas cards! Not that I (or he) gives a monkeys about their names anyway. I won't be preventing him from hanging out with the chavs; he'll probably be one himself
My classmates were all called Mark, David, Thomas, William, Richard, Jill, Fiona, Helen, Simon, Peter, Andrew, Alison, Dawn, Joanne and Susan.
Amazing how fashions change. My name never gets over a couple of hundred a year.
EDIT We had one called Roger whose teeth were all mercury amalgam so he resembled Jaws from James Bond.
It's sometimes suggested that Paxman is a closet Tory. Could this be his way of making sure like any good political journalist that's he's buttering both sides of the coalition? I wouldn't be surprised if in the next few weeks we get the odd Dave style photo appearing in the press of Jeremy wearing sandals.
On house prices, just strikes me as sad that our capital city is now going to become even more unaffordable for people to live in. I guess people will be commuting further into work. Can't be good for the economy.
Robin Brant @robindbrant JCB research has given a total of £32,500 to four target constituencies, Wells, NE Derbyshire, Nuneaton (Con held) and Telford.
NE Derbyshire is cloud cuckoo land for CON to win at GE 2015.
Why would you call a kid Anakin? Have they seen the films? He's a whining, badly acted arsehead.
Vader, on the other hand...
I'm tempted to search for the kid called Darth or Yoda. In Freakamonics there's a chapter on kids becoming their own names - one was called Temptress FFS.
Did you like the book? Whilst I liked certain aspects of the world (and stole/modified the Godi for my own writing) it felt a bit of a slog to me.
Miss Plato, in the Sixth Form I was in a form of about 11, three of whom were called Mohammed.
I had 3x Joannes, 3x Alisons, 3x Fiona 2x Helens in mine. Almost all my boyfriends were called Mark, David or Andy. It made things really confusing so we tended to use nicknames instead.
Being called Mohammed must be a complete nightmare.
And do women actually like kissing or having sex with men with stubble and beards?
I hate stubble - having a red rubbed face following an encounter is really unattractive. Give me a man with a close shave anytime. I associate beards with being unclean unless they're very clipped and artistic looking.
Studies show that women prefer men with about 3mm of stubble (that's about five day's growth, or a month for tim), as against clean shaven men. Women believe men with stubble look much more masculine and sexy. Check all the Hollywood actors who now wear stubble: it's practically universal. This is why.
Women ALSO believe men with beards look even MORE masculine than men with stubble, however men with beards are deemed threatening (TOO masculine and aggressive), so they score lower than the clean shaven on sexiness.
Here is Paxman's problem. He hasn't got the right length. He's got about two weeks of stubble which is almost a proper beard, plus he's very grey now and the mini-beard emphasises this greyness, thereby ageing him. Stubble would be less obviously grey.
He needs to get a proper beard-trimmer and reduce the bristles to 3mm.
NE Derbyshire is cloud cuckoo land for CON to win at GE 2015.
Certainly a long shot. Huw Merriman (who is now our constituency party chairman here in Wealden) did extraordinarily well to get the Labour majority down to just 5.2% in 2010 - this is a seat where not long ago Labour had majorities of 23% to 35%. I gather the demographics have been shifting somewhat in the Conservatives' favour, but, yeah, probably not one to tuck into the 'maybe blue' column this time round. I imagine the effort being put in here is more building up strength for the future.
And do women actually like kissing or having sex with men with stubble and beards?
I hate stubble - having a red rubbed face following an encounter is really unattractive. Give me a man with a close shave anytime. I associate beards with being unclean unless they're very clipped and artistic looking.
Studies show that women prefer men with about 3mm of stubble (that's about five day's growth, or a month for tim), as against clean shaven men. Women believe men with stubble look much more masculine and sexy. Check all the Hollywood actors who now wear stubble: it's practically universal. This is why.
Women ALSO believe men with beards look even MORE masculine than men with stubble, however men with beards are deemed threatening (TOO masculine and aggressive), so they score lower than the clean shaven on sexiness.
Here is Paxman's problem. He hasn't got the right length. He's got about two weeks of stubble which is almost a proper beard, plus he's very grey now and the mini-beard emphasises this greyness, thereby ageing him. Stubble would be less obviously grey.
He needs to get a proper beard-trimmer and reduce the bristles to 3mm.
Not that I've researched this or anything.
I'd agree - but it looks grubby. Imagine a lady with stubble on her legs or armpits? Ewwww.
16 boys registered without a name! How does that work then...?
Blinking heck, they haven't even spelt Anakin properly.
On the Star Wars front, I like the name Leia. I think it is pretty. I wouldn't have called my daughter that because she would've grown up answering Force-related questions, but it is a nice name.
My boy (Joshua) was in nursery last year and I'm sure you'll be reassured to know that his classmates all had fairly traditional names. He was in class with a Dylan, a Harry, two Olivers, three Caitlins, a Lewis, a Millie, a Bethany, a Lily, a Jack and a Finlay among others. Nothing too offensive and they all send eachother Christmas cards! Not that I (or he) gives a monkeys about their names anyway. I won't be preventing him from hanging out with the chavs; he'll probably be one himself
My classmates were all called Mark, David, Thomas, William, Richard, Jill, Fiona, Helen, Simon, Peter, Andrew, Alison, Dawn, Joanne and Susan.
Amazing how fashions change. My name never gets over a couple of hundred a year.
EDIT We had one called Roger whose teeth were all mercury amalgam so he resembled Jaws from James Bond.
I had five Gareths in my class. I was born in 1977 and Gareth Edwards - being the world's premier rugby player at that time - circumvented fashion
I rented a wonderful split level penthouse apartment in Chelsea from Ken Annakin, he said he bought it with the first royalty cheque from "Those Magnificent men..." movie.. Nice chap..
Robin Brant @robindbrant BBC told mystery donor who gave over half a million to the coalition parties died and stipulated money went to whoever was in government.
Miss Plato, I suspect the reverse can also be true. Calling a girl Chastity is just asking for trouble.
Mr. Eagles, I never knew Darth Vader was a Yorkshireman!
"Ey up, ye soft rebel basterds."
@FactHive said earlier that James Earl Jones refused to have his name in the first SWars credits because he expected the film to flop.
Incorrect
Known for his humility, he declined to have his name appear on the credits of both Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) and Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), claiming that he felt his contribution wasn't significant enough to warrant a credit. He did agree to have his name appear of the credits of Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983).
p I had 3x Joannes, 3x Alisons, 3x Fiona 2x Helens in mine. Almost all my boyfriends were called Mark, David or Andy. It made things really confusing so we tended to use nicknames instead.
Being called Mohammed must be a complete nightmare.
The bulk of boys in my family tend to be called Henry (with the occasional Richard, Charles or Alexander) so we started adding house names to differentiate them. As in Henry of Staplehurst or Henry of Mitcham Grove.
The only exceptions are Henry the Magnificent and Good Henry, but those are fairly self-explanatory... ;-)
p I had 3x Joannes, 3x Alisons, 3x Fiona 2x Helens in mine. Almost all my boyfriends were called Mark, David or Andy. It made things really confusing so we tended to use nicknames instead.
Being called Mohammed must be a complete nightmare.
The bulk of boys in my family tend to be called Henry (with the occasional Richard, Charles or Alexander) so we started adding house names to differentiate them. As in Henry of Staplehurst or Henry of Mitcham Grove.
The only exceptions are Henry the Magnificent and Good Henry, but those are fairly self-explanatory... ;-)
Did you like the book? Whilst I liked certain aspects of the world (and stole/modified the Godi for my own writing) it felt a bit of a slog to me.
Miss Plato, in the Sixth Form I was in a form of about 11, three of whom were called Mohammed.
I had 3x Joannes, 3x Alisons, 3x Fiona 2x Helens in mine. Almost all my boyfriends were called Mark, David or Andy. It made things really confusing so we tended to use nicknames instead.
Being called Mohammed must be a complete nightmare.
Rather carelessly phrased imo.
In my limited experience, they'd answer to it but often be known by another of their names.
Robin Brant @robindbrant BBC told mystery donor who gave over half a million to the coalition parties died and stipulated money went to whoever was in government.
Now that's bizarre. However, how did they take account of the fact that it's a coalition? Looks like the Tories have got their proportionate share in terms of MPs.
Our old history teacher in Wales told us that religious statement name were very popular when non-conformity swept the principality in the 18th and 19th centuries - names like Praisegod Williams and Goodlord Evans...
Again the Welsh example is instructive. The Welsh Guards use numbers (Jones four, Williams six) and Ivor the Engine gives another way around it - 'Jones the Steam'
And so, presumably, Mohammed the IT, Mohammed the Terror.....etc.
Robin Brant @robindbrant BBC told mystery donor who gave over half a million to the coalition parties died and stipulated money went to whoever was in government.
Now that's bizarre. However, how did they take account of the fact that it's a coalition? Looks like the Tories have got their proportionate share in terms of MPs.
Did you like the book? Whilst I liked certain aspects of the world (and stole/modified the Godi for my own writing) it felt a bit of a slog to me.
Miss Plato, in the Sixth Form I was in a form of about 11, three of whom were called Mohammed.
I had 3x Joannes, 3x Alisons, 3x Fiona 2x Helens in mine. Almost all my boyfriends were called Mark, David or Andy. It made things really confusing so we tended to use nicknames instead.
Being called Mohammed must be a complete nightmare.
Rather carelessly phrased imo.
In my limited experience, they'd answer to it but often be known by another of their names.
Oh good grief - nitpicky. I'm an evil Tory racist yes yes yes.
Our old history teacher in Wales told us that religious statement name were very popular when non-conformity swept the principality in the 18th and 19th centuries - names like Praisegod Williams and Goodlord Evans...
There are some fantastic names - I'm all for a bit of creativity. I had aunties called Patience etc. I do find ones that are a bit TOWIE like Chardonnay a bit odd.
Again the Welsh example is instructive. The Welsh Guards use numbers (Jones four, Williams six) and Ivor the Engine gives another way around it - 'Jones the Steam'
And so, presumably, Mohammed the IT, Mohammed the Terror.....etc.
I've taught at a Bradford (ish) school with lots of Mohammeds. Many used their other names. No problem, no nightmare.
Again the Welsh example is instructive. The Welsh Guards use numbers (Jones four, Williams six) and Ivor the Engine gives another way around it - 'Jones the Steam'
And so, presumably, Mohammed the IT, Mohammed the Terror.....etc.
What an excellent comparison. We had several Welsh names in my class but I never realised at the time.
Being called John Smith is surely pretty uncommon these days.
p I had 3x Joannes, 3x Alisons, 3x Fiona 2x Helens in mine. Almost all my boyfriends were called Mark, David or Andy. It made things really confusing so we tended to use nicknames instead.
Being called Mohammed must be a complete nightmare.
The bulk of boys in my family tend to be called Henry (with the occasional Richard, Charles or Alexander) so we started adding house names to differentiate them. As in Henry of Staplehurst or Henry of Mitcham Grove.
The only exceptions are Henry the Magnificent and Good Henry, but those are fairly self-explanatory... ;-)
Ha! Marvellous.
HtM designed and built my avatar. Good Henry paid for it....
The US sprinter - English Gardner has a great name.
Randy Bumgardner surely wins the Top Trumps game everytime?
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I have a very good Egyptian friend called Mohammed..he insists on being called Michael..throws wonderful boozy dinner parties and never touches a drop himself..
I have a very good Egyptian friend called Mohammed..he insists on being called Michael..throws wonderful boozy dinner parties and never touches a drop himself..
I'd a Libyan BF who was called Mohammed - pretended he was Egyptian and told everyone he was called Magick. He made a killing from making tiny soft goods from Burberry fabric leftovers. He loved getting plastered.
The US sprinter - English Gardner has a great name.
Randy Bumgardner surely wins the Top Trumps game everytime?
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I was wondering if you found a reliable source for Mac's alleged "Events, dear boy. Events." quote.
No, I do not. But then I've never looked. Clearly someone coined the phrase and Occam's Razor supports its attribution to SuperMac.
But where is the evidence he actually said it??
Somewhere in the distant recesses of an addled Hersham (or should that be Bournemouth) mono brain cell is the faint recollection that it appeared in the late Sir Julian Critchley's autobiography 'A Bag of Boiled Sweets'. He was first elected in 1959 and was a devotee of Macmillan who uttered the famed words at an informal meeting with young Tory MPs.
I must admit, I'm not sure Paxman is the type to let public reaction force him into shaving after one night. I think we'll see it for at least a week or so.
The US sprinter - English Gardner has a great name.
Randy Bumgardner surely wins the Top Trumps game everytime?
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I reckon Eric Fruithandler is better, personally.
LOL
for those wishing to search for such gems - a new browser is being rolled out re web censorship http://piratebrowser.com/
TGOHF - The reason that UK mortgages are seen as risk free lending is that everything bar the kitchen sink has been thrown at the UK housing market to stop it collapsing. Just imagine what higher interest - therefore mortgage rates - would do. Neither are we prepared to deal with the supply problem for political reasons. So I suppose if you rig a market so completely that prices are very high you could argue there is no bubble. But it plainly isn't good for the future of the economy. I've not heard anyone sensible explain why you need this combination of monetary activism and fiscal conservatism in a crisis like this. Just stinks of rank ideology.
Conservatives have a certain soft spot for the BoE given it's the sort of ruritanian pre-democratic institution that they like. The treasury on the other has long been taken over by democratic interests that appeal to you know ordinary people. The snobs can't have that.
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Blaming "welfare" or the public sector or the wrong sort of voters, as many Conservatives do is not just head-in-the-sand: it's salt in the wounds.
Theresa May was right. Conservatives are seen as the nasty party by many people who'd otherwise vote Tory. Hence David Cameron's detoxification strategy.
Another aspect of the Charities scam that annoyed me with "Save The Children" was their decision to spend some of the money in the UK.
Now I know I'm in a minority here, but I was happy to give money when I pictured starving African kids staring out at me through their gaunt eyes. Ribs you could play a tune on and a stomach distended by fluid and not fat. "Won't someone feed them?" would have been the strapline
But the STC Director decided we needed to spend some of that money on deprived kids in the UK (caused by the horrible austerity) as they were all in "poverty" (as defined).
I think even Roger would struggle to devise an effective advert featuring a gang of obese kids looking like they were auditioning for the "Roly-Polys". And with a strapline of ... "Won't someone stop them eating so much?"
There's sixteen boys called "Blazej" How do you pronounce this?
Ban those pesky foreigners from owning our buy to let flats !!
Suprised Conway got onto that - what with it being the day when we find out how much train tickets have gone up.
"[ syll. bla-zej, bl-az-ej ] The baby boy name Blazej is pronounced as BL-Z †. Blazej is used chiefly in Czech and Polish. Its origin is Latin.
Blazej is a variant of the name Blaise (English and French) in the Czech and Polish languages.
Blazej is also a variant of the name Blaze (English and Latin) in the Polish language.
Blazej is not often used as a baby boy name. It is not listed within the top 1000. Among the family of boy names directly related to Blazej, Blaze was the most widely used in 2012.
Baby names that sound like Blazej include Blaze (English and Latin), Blake (English), Balesh (Indian), Bayles, Baylles, Beals (English), Blac, Black, Blacke, Blaek, Blaeke, Blaes, Blaese, Blaez, Blaeze, Blaik, Blaike, Blais, Blaise (English and French), and Blaiz.
† English pronunciation for Blazej: B as in "be (B.IY)" ; L as in "lay (L.EY)" ; Z as in "zoo (Z.UW)"
http://www.babynamespedia.com/meaning/Blazej
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/08/will-nate-silver-be-wrong-about-scotland-he-was-wrong-about-britain
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/alex-massie/2013/08/nate-silver-on-scottish-independence-alex-salmond-has-no-chance/
http://students.mimuw.edu.pl/~bo262963/pronounce.html
On the Star Wars front, I like the name Leia. I think it is pretty. I wouldn't have called my daughter that because she would've grown up answering Force-related questions, but it is a nice name.
My boy (Joshua) was in nursery last year and I'm sure you'll be reassured to know that his classmates all had fairly traditional names. He was in class with a Dylan, a Harry, two Olivers, three Caitlins, a Lewis, a Millie, a Bethany, a Lily, a Jack and a Finlay among others. Nothing too offensive and they all send eachother Christmas cards! Not that I (or he) gives a monkeys about their names anyway. I won't be preventing him from hanging out with the chavs; he'll probably be one himself
"The party funding figures are out for Quarter 2 of the year. The Tories are out front with £4,116,006 while Labour’s £3,136,447 is almost entirely from the unions. The LibDems have struggled to even raise a million with £801,448, while UKIP’s £160,289 was double what they raised in Q1.
The biggest donors were:
Unite the Union £772,195 to Labour
Ms Joan L B Edwards £420,576 to Tories
Ms Joan L B Edwards £99,423 to LibDems
GMB £485,830 to Labour
UNISON £458,080 to Labour
Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers £411,147 to Labour
Mr Michael S Farmer £280,770 to Tories
Mr James R Lupton £263,600 To Tories
National Conservative Draws Society £165,000 to Tories
CWU £143,121 to Labour
Offshore Group Newcastle Limited £117,300 to Tories
Clearly whoever Joan L B Edwards is, she really really likes the coalition. Labour got another £2,241,419 in short money, yet despite this have gone cap in hand to the bank again >>>
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23680064 …
JCB research has given a total of £32,500 to four target constituencies, Wells, NE Derbyshire, Nuneaton (Con held) and Telford.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/article3841212.ece
All this could have been averted if the disposable razor had been invented sooner.
Amazing how fashions change. My name never gets over a couple of hundred a year.
EDIT We had one called Roger whose teeth were all mercury amalgam so he resembled Jaws from James Bond.
On house prices, just strikes me as sad that our capital city is now going to become even more unaffordable for people to live in. I guess people will be commuting further into work. Can't be good for the economy.
Vader, on the other hand...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Annakin
Did you like the book? Whilst I liked certain aspects of the world (and stole/modified the Godi for my own writing) it felt a bit of a slog to me.
Miss Plato, in the Sixth Form I was in a form of about 11, three of whom were called Mohammed.
Mr. Eagles, I never knew Darth Vader was a Yorkshireman!
"Ey up, ye soft rebel basterds."
Ladbrokes make it 4/5 that Paxman will see out his TV duty for the week wth beard
It's 2/1 that it'll survive 2013
Being called Mohammed must be a complete nightmare.
The guy who came third in the Zimbabwe election (with 3% of the vote, according to the 'official' figures) had the christian name 'Welshman'
Nice chap..
Robin Brant @robindbrant
BBC told mystery donor who gave over half a million to the coalition parties died and stipulated money went to whoever was in government.
http://goo.gl/ex9zbk
A: Ray Houghton, born Glasgow 1962, for the Republic of Ireland at Euro 88
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/5live/posts/England-v-Scotland-The-Auld-Enemy
Known for his humility, he declined to have his name appear on the credits of both Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) and Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), claiming that he felt his contribution wasn't significant enough to warrant a credit. He did agree to have his name appear of the credits of Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983).
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000469/bio
The only exceptions are Henry the Magnificent and Good Henry, but those are fairly self-explanatory... ;-)
Of course its hard to beat Canaan Banana
Or Neville Neville.
The Canaan Banana scandal did lead to the headline "Man sodomised by Banana"
In my limited experience, they'd answer to it but often be known by another of their names.
Our old history teacher in Wales told us that religious statement name were very popular when non-conformity swept the principality in the 18th and 19th centuries - names like Praisegod Williams and Goodlord Evans...
http://t.co/M6RhlNQ9jJ
Chris Hamilton @chrishams
“…the BBC is generally as pogonophobic as the late-lamented Albanian dictator, Enver Hoxha.”
https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/status/367247907948224512/photo/1
Again the Welsh example is instructive. The Welsh Guards use numbers (Jones four, Williams six) and Ivor the Engine gives another way around it - 'Jones the Steam'
And so, presumably, Mohammed the IT, Mohammed the Terror.....etc.
Personally I cant really grow one, except for a bit of stubble... just call me Njal!
Rose like a salmon on viagra and bulleted it into the English net.
1min 50 in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo1mvE-ou7g
Talking about this topic with labour posters is like tapping someone on the knee.
The ensuing jerk is completely involuntary....
Perhaps future MiLs could be called Sarsons?
I've taught at a Bradford (ish) school with lots of Mohammeds. Many used their other names. No problem, no nightmare.
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http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jeremywarner/100025364/all-this-talk-of-another-uk-house-price-bubble-is-a-bit-premature-nest-ce-pas/
Being called John Smith is surely pretty uncommon these days.
Tomorrow night has got 1-1 written all over it.
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Do you mean goals scored, or crossbars broken?
Count your fingers after shaking hands mind...
Dan Hodges: Ashes 2013: If Australia only Australia had a touch of English arrogance
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danhodges/100230926/ashes-2013-if-australia-are-to-stand-a-chance-this-winter-they-need-to-become-as-arrogant-as-england/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
for those wishing to search for such gems - a new browser is being rolled out re web censorship http://piratebrowser.com/
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Conservatives have a certain soft spot for the BoE given it's the sort of ruritanian pre-democratic institution that they like. The treasury on the other has long been taken over by democratic interests that appeal to you know ordinary people. The snobs can't have that.